Offroad (film)
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| Original title | Offroad |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 98 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Elmar Fischer |
| script | Elmar Fischer, Susanne Hertel |
| production |
Jakob Claussen , Uli Putz |
| music | Ali N. Askin |
| camera | Philipp Kirsamer |
| cut | Eva Lopez-Echegoyen |
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Offroad (subtitle: Pack life by the horns ) is a German feature film from 2012 . Elmar Fischer directed the film and wrote the script together with Susanne Hertel . The comedy tells of Meike, a girl from Geilenkirchen , played by Nora Tschirner , who comes into possession of a jeep at an auction and finds fifty kilograms of cocaine under the side panel . When she learns that her fiancé is cheating on her, Meike decides to start over by selling the drugs - but without having counted on the police and real dealers .
The road movie was produced by Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion under the direction of Jakob Claussen and Uli Putz . The shooting took place from October to November 2010 in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Geilenkirchen. In addition to Tschirner, Elyas M'Barek , Max von Pufendorf , Leslie Malton and Nora Binder , among others , could be engaged for the production. Offroad received mixed to negative reviews from critics after publication. With around 421,000 visitors, however, the feature film was able to place itself among the twenty most-watched German cinema productions of 2012.
action
The life path of the Geilenkirchen junior boss Meike Pelzer has always seemed predetermined: after successfully completing her business administration studies, they expect to marry their long-time friend Philip and soon take over their father's business. Everything changes when you visit an auction : By buying a jeep that had previously been confiscated at the German-Dutch border, Meike is nearing the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream: she would like to go on an off-road tour through the Sahara . During the auction, Julian and Ulf turn up, who want to buy the car from her for a multiple of this - but Meike declines with thanks. The next morning she discovered 50 kg of cocaine in the trunk during a test drive . She decides to go to the police and tell her fiancé about the incident. But when she visits him at home, a nasty surprise awaits her: Through the window, Meike watches as Philip is cheating on her with her best friend.
Disappointed and angry at the same time, Meike decides to leave her peaceful life behind for the time being and sets off with the jeep in the direction of Düsseldorf . Once there, Meike tries to sell the cocaine in front of a nightclub. But when she wants to sell the goods to two potential buyers, she is bloodily beaten. Julian and Ulf, who have meanwhile followed Meike with the help of a tracking device and are supposed to recover the cocaine on behalf of their unscrupulous boss Tuschi, see their chance to finally steal the car key from the helpless Meike. Just in time, however, the two are driven away by the disco visitor Salim, who hurries to help, and his friend Sarah, who take Meike in overnight. When Salim started his journey home to Berlin days later , Meike spontaneously offered to accompany him. During the trip she lets him in on the secret of her valuable cargo. When he arrived in the capital, Salim arranged a first deal through his sister Özlem. After this more or less successful start to their “business”, Meike and Salim celebrate in a night club and spend the night together in the jeep, where they also sleep together.
Tuschi, Julian and Ulf managed to follow Meike's trail and first threaten Salim with a knife. In a confused scuffle, in which shots are fired, the three attackers leave the apartment without having achieved anything. Salim would now like to call in the police to put an end to everything. When Meike returns to her hotel, her room has already been devastated by her pursuers and the three are waiting for her in the car in front of the hotel. Although she manages to escape with the jeep, she is now pursued by the three of them. However, after a wild chase, she can get away unscathed while the car of her pursuers is totaled. In desperation, Meike turns to Philip, whom she tries to forgive. He immediately flies to Berlin and moves with Meike into the apartment of a friend who is currently abroad. Meike tells him about unintentional cocaine possession and Philip immediately plans to sell all of the cocaine through dark contacts he knows from the time of his legal internship in Berlin. In the evening, Meike takes Philip to a nightclub and discovers mug shots of herself there. Contrary to expectations, the pictures come from Salim, who suddenly appears on the dance floor. After a brief game of confusion and a tussle between Salim and Philip, Meike and Philip drive away in a taxi.
The day of the great handover of all of the cocaine is approaching. Meike and Philip meet his former boss in a large parking lot, who is supposed to hand over the money to them here. But they are surprised by the police who now arrest all three. To the great surprise of everyone involved, forensics only finds detergent instead of cocaine, and the three of them are released. Meike immediately suspects that Salim must have made the exchange. She breaks into Philip's apartment and looks for the cocaine. When Salim comes home, he declares that he is not interested in the drug. Before Philip can take the cocaine, Meike starts the washing machine in which the cocaine is hidden and everything is destroyed. In the end, Meike and Salim drive together in a jeep towards the Sahara.
background
Director Elmar Fischer developed the idea for Offroad shortly after completing his first feature film, Fremder Freund (2002), after he came across a report in the newspaper in which a man bought a car at customs and found an unusually large amount of cocaine in it . While Fischer was still experimenting with a 40-year-old man as the main character in the first drafts of the script, he finally decided to focus on “a woman in her mid, late 20s, just established in the profession” who, according to his own statements, both as well as the story "Angry young woman" and as a heroine should make it more exciting. Co-author Susanne Hertel later got involved in script development.
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Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion from Munich took over the production . Producer Jakob Claussen , who had been looking for a movie for Nora Tschirner for some time , finally brought the script to the actress. The casting process, the castings of which were held under the direction of agent Daniela Tolkien with Tschirner in mind, ultimately dragged on for over a year. Elyas M'Barek , with whom Tschirner had previously appeared in front of the camera in Til Schweiger's Zweiohrküken (2009) and the TV series Doctor's Diary , emerged as the main male character quite early on . For the three characters Tuschi, Julian and Ulf, the producers had twelve candidates played in different constellations; In the end, with Thomas Fränzel , Stefan Rudolf and Tonio Arango, three line-ups emerged that Fischer had already imagined in the development phase.
Fischer's second cinema production was shot between October 6 and November 25, 2010 in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Ratingen and Geilenkirchen . Fischer spent his youth in Geilenkirchen. According to Claussen, it was his great wish to have the shooting take place there, among other places. The financing was supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt , the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the German Filmförderfonds . The SUV that is the focus of the film is a Jeep Grand Wagoneer , as it was built by Chrysler between 1987 and 1991.
Reviews
Melanie Lauer von Filmstarts described Offroad in her review as “quite entertaining, but also not very innovative” food and wrote: “So far, so predictable. The fact that Offroad is quite entertaining despite the not very original story is mainly due to the charming actors [...] Thanks to a brisk narrative pace, [the film] is an amusing and entertaining comedy for long stretches, but it suffers from its stereotyped and predictable nature. Director Elmar Fischer would have done a little more of his main characters' thirst for adventure ”. The fact that the film is still entertaining is mainly due to the “charming actors”.
In his review for Deutschlandradio, Hans-Ulrich Pönack called the film a “constructed weak comedy” that only had to offer “staid and predictable jokes”. Offroad “is one of those little German Achherrjeh films. With much more TV movements than cinema movements, with plenty of logic holes and a lot of uncomfortable fuss and chatter […] Instead of dissolving visually through narration, we are informed of interpretation and morals in good verbosity. Yawn ". Tschirner tries "in vain to act against a slack script" and offers "only honest, predictable cheerfulness". M'Barek, on the other hand, cramped “through the badly constructed flat joke scenery”.
Manfred Riepe from the Evangelical Press Service found that Fischer was attempting a “mix of road movie, crime parody and multiculturalism”, but despite “an appealing performance by the two main actors” he only achieved “a moderately original” result that barely “followed the well-trodden paths of the genre " leave. Offroad offers “a typical, all too typical comedy situation” with “a lot of gossip”. Only Tschirner set “highlights” in her role of Meike. Rainer Tittelbach declared the feature film to be a “disguised road movie that bumps and stumbles and never gets going. Comedy full of batches and stupid chatter ”.
Norbert Wehrstedt, editor of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, described the production as a “low-drive comedy” and went on to write: “In Elmar Fischer's road movie Offroad, the tiger doesn't hiss in the tank, the comedy stutters and stumbles a little without drive. The director tries to mix irony with action and feelings with possibly parodic scenes. But everything is so hesitant that wipers, image splits, quick cuts and sought-after camera perspectives are of little use. Especially since the dialogues usually pointlessly explain everything that the pictures show anyway ”.
The industry-related portal Kino.de called Offroad a “fun film” that represents a “turbulent mix of comedy, thriller and road movie ”: “Virtuoso [Fischer] relies on speed and fast cuts, including car stunts, chases and shootings. US hits like Ocean's Eleven or Thomas Crown are unbelievable being reclined to German standards, split-screen technology is cleverly used and Ali M. Askin's lively ethno soundtrack fires the action ”. The Rheinische Post wrote that the script made use of many clichés and did not develop a narrative flow. After all, Tschirner and M'Barek are "sympathetic leading actors".
success
In Germany, Offroad was released for public screening on January 12, 2012 by a distributor Paramount Pictures . After the end of the first weekend, the fictional film had around 130,000 moviegoers in 316 cinemas, placing it behind Zellt Beste Freunde , Verblendung , Sherlock Holmes: Spiel im Schatten and Rubbeldiekatz in fifth place on the German cinema charts. By the end of February, the film had around 416,000 viewers in Germany. With a total of 421,400 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was ranked 18th of the most-watched German cinema productions of 2012.
Awards
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. The jury described the production as “a rapidly staged crime comedy [which] has been knitted against the grain of the genre with a lot of imagination and arrogance” and skillfully uses “new variations of many standard situations”. However, the film would be carried by “Tschirner […] in a role that was obviously made for her. As Meike, she can be bored, snappy, adventurous, stubborn, dry, vulnerable and shrewd - and mostly a casual gesture or a grimace is enough to express this characteristic in a very convincing, sympathetic and funny way. "
Web links
- Offroad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Offroad at filmportal.de
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for off-road . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 617 K).
- ↑ Age rating for off-road . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Offroad, press release . Retrieved December 1, 2013.
- ↑ OFFROAD - location Geilenkirchen, market square . In: film portal . geilenkirchen-local.deaccessdate = 2019-10-04.
- ↑ a b Offroad, Germany 2010/2011, feature film . In: film portal . Filmportal.de. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ↑ Melanie Lauer: Offroad> Film Starts Critique . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b Manfred Riepe: Critique of Offroad . In: Evangelical press service . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Hans-Ulrich Pönack: Films of the week: Offroad . In: Deutschlandradio . Dradio.de. January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Cinema co-production "Offroad - Pack life by the horns" . In: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Norbert Wehrstedt: With gas for fun in Nora Tschirner's new film "Offroad" . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Offroad> Criticism . In: Kino.de . Kino.de . Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ↑ Rheinische Post January 13, 2012, p. C8 (also online )
- ↑ German cinema charts: Quite the best performance . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz. January 16, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Film hit list February 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed on April 7, 2012
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ↑ Offroad . In: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . FBW-Filmbassy.com. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
